Woolmark ambassador Tom Daley launches knit kit

​Woolmark has teamed up with Tom Daley, last year making the British Olympic diving champion and entrepreneur an ambassador and now launching a wool knit kit. Also known for his time spent knitting to relax in between competitions, it appears Daley has sparked a fresh wave of wool enthusiasts to embrace the craft and pick…

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Hermès: Summer in the city

“Hot town, summer in the city,” were the lyrics to B.B. King’s greatest classic, and the leitmotif of an insouciantly chic Hermès collection staged on a steamy Saturday in Paris. See catwalkHermes – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Presented inside the Conseil de Surveillance, a temple to French 1930s Rationalist architecture,…

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Craig Green: From Abbey Road to Arts et Métiers

The most fertile imagination in menswear, that would be Craig Green for the uninitiated, staged his latest show in Paris on Sunday, and it was, in a word, sensational. Craig Green spring/summer 2026 collection in Paris – Launchmetrics Riffing through materials, epochs, cultural references and diverse artistic moods to create the most original menswear of…

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Harrods’ top buyer hails Dior, Watanabe, Saint Laurent, and Lemaire menswear at Paris shows

Harrods’ fashion buying director Simon Longland has been pulling together his thoughts on Paris Fashion Week‘s menswear and in a week when there was “a rare sense of cohesion”, his favourite collections were from Dior, Junya Watanabe, Saint Laurent, and Lemaire. See catwalkDior Men – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Longland…

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A luxury experience in China: Global high-end brands bet on conceptual stores to revive sales

By Reuters Published June 30, 2025 Louis Vuitton‘s latest Shanghai store is not your average luxury flagship. The 30-meter-high, ship-shaped store, “The Louis”, is billed as an experience, and houses an exhibition space and cafe in Shanghai’s downtown Nanjing Road shopping strip. Reuters “The Louis”, which had a grand opening on Thursday, will undoubtedly draw…

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